Pruitt v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions

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1. “Appellate counsel's performance, as to the selection and presentation of issues, will ... be presumed adequate unless found unquestionably unreasonable considering the information available in the trial record or otherwise known to appellate counsel. To prevail on a claim of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel, a defendant must therefore show from the information available in the trial record or otherwise known to appellate counsel that appellate counsel failed to present a significant and obvious issue and that this failure cannot be explained by any reasonable strategy.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Ward v. State

2. “an individual who, before becoming twenty-two (22) years of age, manifests: (1) significantly subaverage intellectual functioning; and (2) substantial impairment of adaptive behavior.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Witt v. State

3. “unless the judge holds a personal bias or prejudice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Shackleford